Re: Is there any reason rvplayer5.0 wouldn't work with PPP 2.3.5 and kernel 2.2.1?

[Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>]

Miles Lane (root@amazon.com) said: 
> 
> I installed RealVideo 5.0 using the file from Real.com.
> I have a Crystal Audio sound card that esound and xgalaga 
> can produce sound on.  I configured rvplayer5.0 to use 
> TCP-only to penetrate my firewall (this works in on the same
> dial-in using Win98).  
> 
> I get an "Error 1" after the rvplayer5.0 fills its initial
> buffers and then goes to connect to the realaudio server
> again.  "Error 1" means an unspecified error occured.
> (How helpful)
> 
> Any clues out there?  Am I overlooking something?

rvplayer doesn't work with Linux 2.2.

From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes:

RealPlayer
=====

   Current releases of Real Player 5.0 depend on a bug in the sound
sub-system which is no longer there.  Consequently, they don't work.
Real is aware of the problem and should have an updated version of the
software available shortly.  In the mean time, you can always try
backing up your copy of rvplayer, and then editing it by:

   dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seeke7586 conv=notrunc dd
if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seekf5986 conv=notrunc

   If you're lucky, you'll then have sound....

   You may also need to edit it with

   dd if=/dev/zero of=rvplayer bs=1 count=1 seekp2554 conv=notrunc

   as well.  Alternately, download rpopen from
http://onramp.i2k.com/~jeffd/rpopen/ and pre-load it before you run
rvplayer (it's a shared object which blocks rvplayer from doing the
NONBLOCKing open of /dev/dsp).


Hope that helps!

Bill